Rural Hopes and Linseed Growth Amid War Pressures
The Federal Government backs linseed production with a guaranteed price of at least £34 a ton, signaling strong diversification of Australia’s primary industry during wartime. Despite severe droughts and labour shortages, farmers, aided by War Agricultural Committees, show progress in rice and flax, raise productivity, and even cultivate poppies for drugs, aiming for postwar self-sufficiency in linseed.
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South-West Pacific
Britain
Commonwealth
Applauding War Efforts and Postwar Industry
The article highlights wartime and postwar efforts across Australia and Britain. It notes apple processing plans in Tasmania and shipments abroad, ongoing food front support with vast apple products, and a push to boost Tractors and agricultural activity. It also covers medical advances with Vitallium tubes in wartime, meat ration adjustments, and future cold storage expansion to protect food supplies. Additionally, the piece mentions new construction material from waste ash to aid housing and infrastructure.
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Tasmania
New South Wales
Western Australia
South Australia
Britain
Canberra
Australia
England
British
Department of Scientific Industrial Researches
History in the Making and the V Day Debate
A fragment from a wartime column contemplates V Day celebrations and the moral limits of mass warfare. It ponders if Allied joy can coexist with ongoing battles, wonders about valor in V C stories, and includes political notes on Bevin Beaver and Scottish views.
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London
Cobram
Edward
Lords
Horway
Withen
Motherwell
Bear Garden
McIntyre
Bereavement Thanks From Naval Hosk North and Family
Naval Hosk North Michoud Nati thank relatives friends and neighbors for letters telegrams floral tributes and expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement. They accept this as a personal and ledgment.
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Naval
Canteen orders acknowledged by Cobram Comforts Fund
Letters from service members thank Cobram Comforts Fund president M D O Dwyer for canteen orders. Sgt Jeanette McKenzie and Pte M Mulqueeney express appreciation for recent orders while Cpl L J Cowher and F O R C Barrington note delivery, changes of address, and hopes for home life returning. Barrington is serving in the Islands.
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The
Cobram Comforts Fund
Jeanette McKenzie
Pte. M. Mulqueeney
Comforts
Cpl. L. J. Coweher
Islands
Cobram
F.O. R. C. Barrington
Bankstown
Personal PARS notes and engagement listings fragment
A fragmented column lists personal notices including congratulations on a birth at Yarrawonga private hospital for Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Johnson of Somerset Burramine. It also mentions an engagement involving Aileen Vere, daughter of J. Gilsenan, Bank of Australasia Cobram, and Lieut. Maxwell James McCarten, son of J. McCarten of Ormond, with accompanying commentary on politics and weather.
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D. E. Johnson
Somerset
Burramine
Yarrawonga Private Hospital
Aileen Vere
J. Gilsenan
Bank of Australasia
Cobram
Maxwell James M’carten
A.lf
J. M’carten
Ormond
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Brown, Corke
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W. R. Denson
Dairyman
Wilbur Street
Whone Cobram
Farmall H
Levee & Debra
Sant
Berrawe
Suyer
Gobram
Ray Eaton
W. Nevill
K.A
A.F
Hal von
Wise
Jordan's Fruit Shop
Ted Monckton
T. N. Harris
Railways Deputation
di Ae Superintendent of Railways
Mr. N. Martin
H. A. Backhouse
Backhouse
Barooga and Cobram , Agricultural Bureau
Citrus * Growers
V.C
Stokes
V.c.'s
Bevin
Truman
Beth
Edire
T. P. O'Reilly
Chemist
Petrolagar Hardy
Punt Rd
R.shadforth High Street
Vernon Wyatt
Air Force
A Muller
A. Muller
High Streeet
E. Hassett & Sons
Bourke St
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